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Backhand BladeWeapons · Backhand Blade
Curseblade's Cirque
SlashSomber Smithing Stone—Unique skill
Weapon of the masked Curseblades. Circular backhand blade with wave-like cutting edges, sharpened into points that incite blood loss.
Attack rating—At your attributes
Weight4.5Equip load units
Requires9Str22Dex
Passive buildup—At your attributes
Attack & scalingUpdates as you edit
In-game description
Weapon of the masked Curseblades.
Circular backhand blade with wave-like cutting edges, sharpened into points that incite blood loss.
Long ago, this was employed by the ascetics who strove to become tutelary deities as a ritualistic object in their self-flagellating dances.
Skill
Deadly DanceFP 15 / 8 · Unique skill
An aggressive spinning skill that tears into foes using the circular blades held in each hand. Additional input allows for a sharp axe-kick follow-up.
Where to find
Map pending
LocationNortheast of the first Gravesite Plain graceMap location pending
Gravesite Plain
Starting Site of Grace: Gravesite Plain
Before you go
- To enter the Realm of Shadow, defeat Starscourge Radahn and Mohg, Lord of Blood, then touch the withered arm in Mohg's arena at Mohgwyn Palace.
- Access the Realm of Shadow.
- Enter the Realm of Shadow after defeating Starscourge Radahn and Mohg, Lord of Blood, by touching the withered arm in Mohg's arena.
- Leave the opening tunnel and activate Gravesite Plain grace. Look northeast toward the tall ruined stone arch on the path ahead.
- A masked Curseblade waits on top of the arch and drops down when you approach. Give yourself room to dodge its spinning attacks, then defeat it and check the glowing loot.
- Collect the weapon drop if it appears, then rest at Gravesite Plain and repeat. The circular weapon and Ascetic clothing are separate random rewards.
Map pending
LocationBelurat, Tower SettlementMap location pending
Gravesite Plain
Starting Site of Grace: Stagefront
Before you go
- To enter the Realm of Shadow, defeat Starscourge Radahn and Mohg, Lord of Blood, then touch the withered arm in Mohg's arena at Mohgwyn Palace.
- Reach the upper part of Belurat.
- From Stagefront, turn back toward the stairs you used to reach the grace. A Curseblade patrols those stairs.
- Approach while crouching if you want to open with a backstab. Defeat it, check the drop, and rest at Stagefront to repeat the farm.
Notes
- Physical damage scales most strongly with Dexterity, with weaker Strength scaling.
- Upgrade it with Somber Smithing Stones. Its maximum upgrade is +10.
- Its Deadly Dance skill is fixed and cannot be replaced with an Ash of War.
- Its normal weapon hits build up blood loss. The effect only triggers against enemies that are vulnerable to it.
- Two-hand the weapon to draw both cirques. You do not need a second copy for its paired attacks.
- Requires 9 Strength and 22 Dexterity, weighs 4.5 and has 45 Blood Loss buildup. It has no Arcane scaling, so Arcane does not improve that innate bleed.
- Deadly Dance costs 15 FP for the opening spinning attack. A heavy-attack follow-up costs another 8 FP and adds the finishing downward attack; both stages require an opening to land safely.
- Its cirque attacks deal Slash damage. The circular blades stay in your hands during ordinary attacks, unlike Smithscript Cirque's thrown heavy attacks.
- It blocks 55% of Physical damage with 45 base Guard Boost. That is much better stamina protection than Backhand Blade's 15 base Guard Boost, but blocking still lets Physical chip damage through.
- The weapon has a smaller PvP damage penalty than the other backhand blades, with the exact reduction depending on the attack. That does not remove its ordinary defenses or make every paired hit land.
- Grease and weapon enchantments cannot be applied. Its fixed skill also prevents replacing Deadly Dance with Blind Spot or Swift Slash.
- The opening Gravesite Plain and Stagefront farms have a 3% base weapon chance at 100 Item Discovery. Some later Curseblade variants have a different chance, so the same rate should not be assumed for every location.
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